On a fresh installation of OMV the RAID should be auto detected at boot. During installation be sure to install OMV on the correct drive. NOT on the data drive. USB drive should be ok, if flashmemory plugin is used. At least many users on the forum are using an USB drive.

Quote from monsen: “I always thought this is executed automatically when going to the updates section. ” This is not the case. But there is a cron job that is looking for updates on a daily basis. openmediavault.readthedocs.io/…light=update%20management

Quote from bvrulez: “If you would like to elaborate more on the seperate files and their purpose I would be glad to also include it into the guide. ” There is a guide for making guides. So it might become a guide in the guide section General Information, Templates & Guidelines for Guides

Might be the .recycle folder is created only when the first file is deleted. If it is not working, you might try to add vfs objects = recycle to the extra options of the service or the share. samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/vfs_recycle.8.html

Quote from vladd: “I would boot my box from an usb drive with clonezilla(omv is not running at that moment) clone the ssd to somewere on /dev/md0 ” If you have omv-extras installed, there is an option to download clonezilla and to tell omv to boot for one time into clonezille. This option is not available for ARM. I use this option to clone the system SSD to a data drive. However, I do not use RAID. You can also use the backup plugin, as geaves mentions, but be aware that restore needs some know…

It is a bit confusing. apt-get update will read your sources list. So you will see some output in the window, but it will not install any newer versions of software. apt-get upgrade will install newer versions of software, if available. In the GUI of OMV, when you go to the update management and press check, it will do an apt-get upgrade, but will only show the packages where newer versions are available. They will be installed after you select install.

Quote from Adoby: “The only problem being that I so far have managed to stay very ignorant about the details of using the btrfs COW snapshot features. ” Have a look at snapper. I use it on my HC-2. Snapshots are created automatically before and after any update.